Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Monday, August 1, 1994

by John Switzer

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Please note the following disclaimer when reading and using this
summary:

1. These summaries are unofficial summaries and are not approved
or sanctioned by Rush Limbaugh or EIB, and should not be
considered a 100% accurate representation of each show. I have no
connection to Rush Limbaugh or EIB other than as a daily
listener.

2. Because this summary is not a word-by-word transcript, it is
inevitable that I may not accurately portray Rush's beliefs or
supporting points. My choice of words may also distort the points
presented by Rush and his callers. A good rule of thumb is "If
something sounds reasonable and intelligent, it belongs to Rush;
if something sounds weird or wrong, it probably belongs to me."

3. The format of this summary is as follows:

o	BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS - since I haven't been able to
keep up with the indexing of these summaries, I've decided to
briefly summarize the major topics of each day's show in this
relatively brief paragraph. It will also appear in the table of
contents for each month, hopefully making it easy to find shows
about specific topics.

o	NEWS - refers to what I consider to be pertinent news
items of the day, as reported by the newspapers, radio, or TV
news media.  This news may or may not also be reported by Rush
during his show; however, I like to use this feature to keep a
perspective on current events as they happen.

o	LIMBAUGH WATCH - this feature keeps a close watch of
Rush's popularity and will notify you of the moment of his
broadcasting demise, which liberals are certain is imminent, now
that Bill Clinton is President.

o	LEST WE FORGET - Highlights from the Rush Limbaugh show
that aired two years ago.

o	MORNING UPDATE - this is Rush's syndicated morning update
which is separate from his regular show.

o	Items - these are the short bits of news or other items
of interest that Rush himself discusses.

o	Phone - this indicates a phone call.

o	Update - this is one of Rush's many updates, and
indicates which song Rush is playing. Note, though, that I may
not use the "official" title of the song, and sometimes will use
the most recognizable line of lyrics as the title.

Any other text is part of Rush's monologue.

4. Anything that appears in "double quotes" may or may not be a
direct quote of Rush, his sources, or his callers. Use the
context of the quoted statement to determine the meaning. My
editorial comments are enclosed in double angled brackets (<<>>).

5. Although I strive for accuracy at all times, because of the
length of each show (3 hours a day, 5 days a week), I cannot
check facts, figures, or names. In particular, the names of
people, places, and things may be spelled incorrectly.

6. A note is needed on Rush's sense of humor, which can run the
gamut from sardonic and sarcastic to rude and crude. Trying to
convey the spirit of spoken humor into the written word is a
daunting task, and I may not always be successful. Therefore, I
use the following conventions to identify Rush's humor: a) a
lead-in such as "Rush jokes" or "Rush injects some humor by
saying; b) using words such as "according to Rush," "supposedly,"
"allegedly" as in "The police supposedly called the theft of 500
panties `unmentionable.'" c) putting editorial comments within
double brackets as in <<Rush is joking here>>. Above all, use
your knowledge of Rush and his show, and the context of the
remarks to determine if humor is present.

DISCLAIMER: This unofficial summary is intended for regular
listeners of Rush's show and is not intended to replace or
supplant Rush's show, as if that were possible. If you find that
you cannot regularly listen to Rush's show, check with your local
station to see if they replay the show later at night. My local
station, for example, replays the show most nights at 8pm. You
can also use most VCRs to record from the radio - simply connect
an audio cable from the AUDIO IN jack at the back of your VCR to
the AUDIO OUT or auxiliary speaker jack at the back of your
radio. Then switch your VCR over to LINE mode (see the VCR's
documentation for details) and record.

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August 1, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: charges dropped against mother who
slapped her son in a Winn-Dixie supermarket; transcript of a
health care ad by the California Wellness Foundation; Yasser
Arafat blocks distribution of pro-Jordan newspaper; will Clinton,
Mitchell, and Foley be around in 30 years when their health care
plan fails?; Steve Carlton, Leo Durocher, and Phil Rizzuto
inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame; media continues to
ignore conservative protestors, most recently on the Scamtrack
bus tour; Willie Nelson provides entertainment at Clinton health
care rally; mention of Rush's name gets biggest reaction, albeit
a negative one, at the Independence, MO health care rally; EIB
celebrates its sixth anniversary; 52,000 Christian men meet in
Boulder, CO; caller at the Independence, MO health care rally
found that access to the rally area was restricted, contrary to
prior reports that everyone could get in; Bo Snerdley is still
available for New York women looking for "Mr. Conservative
Right"; summary of Gephardt health care plan shows that it would
have an employer mandate and other aspects of the Clinton plan,
but wouldn't go into effect until 1999; Gephardt plan is not
targeted to the middle class; caller thinks health care mandate
would lower costs by forcing everyone to pay for their own
insurance; words to "Come On, Get Health Care"; Carol Browner
says she can't do her job at the EPA until everyone in America
has health care; words to "Read It in the Headlines"; Washington
state will pay for universal coverage by limiting people's choice
of doctors, and by imposing employer mandates and uniform managed
care; Hillary Clinton a big supporter of the Washington plan that
limits patients' choice of their doctors; Washington state
legislators are so unhappy with their Clinton-style plan that
they've already proposed 200 amendments to it over one year;
Brett Schundler, mayor of Jersey City, shows how health care
costs can be curbed via the free market; Gephardt tells union
worker that he'll "probably" get to keep his current health care
plan; caller doesn't think employer mandate or limited choice in
health care are that much of a problem; Michael Kelly notes
Clinton is not so much dishonest as ahonest, without any soul or
center; Mary McGrory thinks Clinton's standing in the polls is
dropping because of his legal defense fund; the people don't
trust Clinton, which is why his approval rating is so low; adding
more security to abortion clinics is only basic common sense;
murdering abortionists is as wrong as anything could be; House
Whitewater hearings are the single greatest abuse of
congressional power that Rush has seen in his lifetime;
transcript of Rep. Peter King's questioning of Maggie Williams
which in turn enraged Rep. Maxine Waters; Maxine Waters goes
bonkers and has to be escorted out of the House chambers; William
Safire says Democrats should stop trying to cover-up for the
White House; Safire calls for Robert Fiske to be replaced;
speaker at Clinton health care rally states that those who listen
to Rush and oppose Clinton's health care plan don't care about
helping their fellow man; health care speaker says that
Christians who oppose abortion shouldn't be worried about federal
funding of abortion because 1) Christians don't have abortions
and 2) they can always find ways not to pay their taxes;
Presidential straw polls are a bit premature because nobody knows
what Clinton's possible opponents stand for; poll shows only 40%
of Americans approve of Clintons' job performance; Secret Service
was asking protestors at Independence, MO what group they were
with; Richmond media mischaracterizes opponents to Clinton's plan
as tobacco workers complaining about taxes; George Mitchell
states that anyone who opposes the Democrats' health care bill is
opposed to health care reform, but Mitchell doesn't have a bill;
FBI found blonde hair and semen on Vince Foster's shorts;
Democrats are praising Fiske, but what will they do if he turns
up some real dirt on the Clintons?; Treasury Dept. says contacts
between Treasury officials and White House were "troubling" but
not wrong; Ben Chavis used NAACP funds to pay off woman accusing
him of sexual harassment; Rush's TV show is on a four-week
hiatus.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

August 1, 1994 - It's now day 559 (day 578 for the rich and the
dead, and 99 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 903 days left) and 636
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 648 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with over 450,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction best-
seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million copies
sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster stopped
printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things Ought To
Be" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list
for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on
the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold over 2.25
million copies.

NEWS

o	Cherokee County, GA prosecutors have dropped the charges
against Lynn Kivi, who was arrested, handcuffed, and jailed after
she slapped her nine-year-old son in a Woodstock Winn-Dixie
supermarket. County District Attorney Garry Moss stated that
"courts of this state recognize the reasonable discipline of a
child by his parents," and Woodstock Police Chief Jimmy Mercer
declared that there was a "real fine line" between allowable
parental discipline and abuse. Neither Moss nor Mercer, however,
explained why if such precepts were recognized by their offices,
they arrested and jailed Kivi in the first place, forcing her
husband to borrow from his pension plan to post her $22,000 bail.

o	The California Wellness Foundation, a liberal special
interest group which is currently funding a gun control campaign
in California using a recorded message by Ed Asner at 1-800-222-
MANY, is airing the following radio ad on several Bay Area radio
stations:

<<female announcer>> You've heard a lot of opinions about health
reform, and the best way to cover Americans who don't have health
insurance. Since this decision will affect every one of us, you
should know the facts. Who are the uninsured in America?

<<male announcer>> Despite what many people think, they're mostly
working people. Eight out of ten Americans who don't have health
insurance are full or part-time workers and their families.

<<female announcer>> Just how many people are we talking about?

<<male announcer>> More than 50 million Americans will be
uninsured for some period of time this year.

<<female announcer>> And what are the consequences?

<<male announcer>> Studies show that uninsured people not only
see doctors less often, but get care later and often end up
sicker than people with insurance.

<<female announcer>> These are just some of the facts you should
know so you can make up your own mind about health reform. We're
the California Wellness Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation. We're not backing any plan, we just want solutions to
be based on facts. To learn more, call toll-free, 1-800-FACTS94.

o	Yasser Arafat, acting as head of the three-month old
Palestinian National Authority, permanently blocked the
circulation of a Palestinian newspaper in Gaza and other areas of
the West Bank. Arafat claimed that his order was motivated only
by the paper's failure to get the proper licenses, and not by the
paper's support for Jordan's claim that it is the legitimate
ruler over the holy Muslin sites in East Jerusalem, a claim which
directly challenges Arafat's assertion that those sites are in
Palestinian territory.

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Monday, August
3, 1992:

o	Scott from Charlotte, NC compared the recent British
elections to the current American Presidential elections. Great
Britain had a contest in which socialism battled conservatism,
and in it Neil Kinnock tried to put a conservative face on his
ultra-liberal party. However, the socialists lost because people
realized that they would have to pay more taxes, not to mention
that they still remembered the disasters of the previous Labour
governments.

Bill Clinton was a fan of Kinnock, and he even had a
congratulatory note written for the British elections. However,
when Kinnock lost, Clinton had to turn it into a note of
condolence. Clinton then sent a memo to his staff saying that "we
should learn from Kinnock's campaign - he did not move far enough
to the right."

o	A caravan of pro-choice Republican women was travelling
across the country to demonstrate on the eve of the Republican
convention how much support there was for abortion in the GOP.
However, nobody was showing up for their rallies, and the bus
tour was turning out to be a major embarrassment.

o	President Bush warned that Bill Clinton's plan for health
care would result in an national health plan that would "combine
the efficiency of the House Post Office with the compassion of
the KGB." Businesses would have to pay for their employees'
health care costs, either directly or through a new tax, and
would be taxed again for those who don't work.

Meanwhile Bush strategist Mary Matalin continued to put out faxes
about the Gore/Clinton ticket. The Clinton campaign, however,
complained this was "negative campaigning." Matalin, however,
noted "we've never said that Clinton is a philandering, pot-
smoking draft dodger." Rush noted that to Democrats, negative
campaigning simply meant telling the truth about them.

o	Mark from St. Paul, MN was upset that Bush was still
ignoring conservatives, and a recent Paul Sobran column noted the
growing number of conservatives who simply wouldn't work for
Bush, give money to him, or even vote for him.

Mark also thought that if Clinton were elected, the conservative
cause would be strengthened because Clinton's liberal policies
would hurt the country. Rush said by this logic, conservatives
who wanted to send a message should vote for a Communist who
could make things really, really bad.

Rush understood Mark's dilemma, and he admitted that he was
frustrated because he could give the speech that Bush needed to
give; he was confident that if he could imitate Bush's voice and
put his picture on the screen, Bush would win. The EIB staff
suggested that Rush promise that if the people got him on the
ballot in all 50 states, he would run for President, but Rush
humbly refused.

o	Rush was asked to do a piece for National Review about
what Bush should do in order to win. The Washington Post also
wanted Rush to write an article about the dissension in the ranks
of Republicans, given that some conservative columnists were
calling for Bush to step down. Rush was most struck, however, by
how quickly things could turn around in politics - the Democrats
were incredibly embarrassed by Clinton two months earlier, but
had since come to view him as their winning ticket.

o	The Wall Street Journal reviewed Senator Al Gore's
apocalyptic environmental book.

o	Senator Al Gore criticized the Bush administration for
refusing to air political ads anywhere except on shows that fit
in with the Republican party's theme of family values. Rush
wondered what kind of complaint this was and pointed out that
Gore had previously defined family values as including fetal
tissue research, family leave, and breast cancer research.

o	Cal Thomas wrote a column about family values in which he
reported how a guest on Good Morning America gave his definition
of family values. Another guest, though, thought people shouldn't
even try to define family values since this would "unfairly
exclude others." Thomas wrote that this discussion showed what
was going wrong with America: "the abandonment of an objective
statement of truth."

Thomas also quoted G.K. Chesterton as writing "when people stop
believing in God, the danger is not that they will believe in
nothing, but that they will believe in anything." Rush agreed
this was what was happening in America.

o	Czechoslovakian researchers reported that three people
who ate carrots to the point of their skin turning orange
suffered withdrawal symptoms when they tried to quit cold turkey.
Rush noted that carrots were dangerous things; for example,
everybody involved in a high-speed automobile accident had eaten
carrots, and everyone born in 1900 who ate carrots had wrinkled
skin and a loss of energy. In fact, some of these people had even
died.

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MORNING UDPATE

Rush has been trying to find Lyndon Baines Johnson, as well as
Mike Mansfield, Johnson's Senate Majority Leader, and John
McCormack, House Speaker in the 60s. Rush is looking for these
men because their War on Poverty hasn't worked; the Great Society
sounded good and compassionate, and it kept the Democrats in
power, but it was a disaster. America has spent from $3 to $5
trillion to destroy poverty, but poverty is still around as much
as ever, and the only thing that was destroyed was the inner city
family, whose destruction was paralleled by the growth of a new
welfare dependency class.

Thus, where are Johnson, Mansfield, and McCormack so Rush can
hold them accountable? Sadly, these men are no longer available,
so Rush is out of luck. He thus has to wonder if in 30 years men
with the names of Clinton, Mitchell, and Foley will be taking
calls, explaining to angry Americans why their fine-sounding
health care plan has been turned into a disaster. Rush doubts
these guys will be around - Senator Majority Mitchell is already
making plans to leave town, President Clinton will be long gone
in 30 years, and Foley will be out as soon as the voters in his
state get the term limits which they so desperately desire.

Rush therefore wonders just who the country can call in 30 years
- who can the country hold accountable then?

FIRST HOUR

Steve Carlton was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of
Fame and Rush congratulates him and the other inductees, Leo
Durocher and Phil "The Scooter" Rizzuto. Rush has never met "The
Scooter" except for two seconds while Rush worked for the Kansas
City Royals, but "The Scooter" has left several notes for Rush at
Patsy's restaurant.

Rush notes that Carlton has never talked to the media since he
once got burned by them; he always liked to say there was no
point in this because his job was to pitch. However, Carlton did
speak to the press after his induction to the Hall of Fame last
weekend, and he remarked, "Actually, being voted into the Hall of
Fame of Baseball by the writers is like Rush Limbaugh being voted
in by the Clintons."

Update	Health Security Express (Don Wade and the
	Inoperatives, "Bogus Bus")

The biggest news on "Scamtrack," the Clintons' health care bus
tour, concerns the rally in Independence, MO, which went pretty
much as Rush expected. The mainstream media continues to ignore
conservative protestors, while giving headlines to leftist ones.
Rush remembers how during the heyday of the Rush to Excellence
tours, he went to Greenville, SC and was greeted by four
protestors. There were over 2,000 people inside who had bought
tickets, but it was the four protestors who got the lead coverage
on that night's TV news.

The National Organization for Women can have 35 women show up for
one of their protests, and they'll still get major coverage.
However, when thousands of people show up to protest the Clinton
plan, they are ignored by the news. Rush doesn't remember seeing
one piece of video about the protestors at Independence, MO at
all over the weekend.

The Washington Times, though, does report that "thousands of
protestors" were shouting "no," "go home," and "liar," which
prompted Clinton to remark that Americans were "shouting too much
and listening too little, and speaking in a respectful tone too
little." Yet, Clinton and Algore talked about the protestors
continually during their speeches, so the protestors had to be
significant to generate this sort of response.

The local Kansas City press, though, insists that only a few
hundreds showed up to protest Clinton. But if this were true, why
did Clinton spend so much time addressing them? And organizers
for the rallies in Independence, MO and Boston kept protestors
away by allowing in only those with tickets distributed by
Clinton supporters.

And in what was truly ironic, it was Willie Nelson who provided
the musical entertainment at the Independence rally. Nelson owed
the IRS some $15 million, and he ended up singing "On the Road
Again" and "Whiskey River."

The rallies were shown on CSPAN, and the crowd of supporters
seemed to be asleep, not very interested in what the President
had to say. However, to be fair, Rush admits these people showed
up at around 7 a.m., and it was a hot day, so it's not surprising
that they appeared tired and flat.

In one memorable moment, a guy in a wheelchair was brought up to
speak, but the presenter walked off without lowering the
microphone for him; someone ended up holding the microphone for
him, and it appeared this guy was throwing away one page of his
speech after every sentence.

His speech was very heart-felt and passionate, but he didn't get
much response from the crowd until he shouted "it's time to stop
the lies of Limbaugh and the special interests!" The place then
came alive, and it appeared there was more dislike for Rush than
support for the Clinton plan. The crowd, in fact, gave such a
reaction to this line, the speaker repeated it.

The Clintons then came forward and put on another shameless
display of "the Whining of America," with nothing but sob stories
that were supposed to prove why their health care plan was
necessary. This health care battle, though, will now be decided
by politics, not issues, and Rush will talk more about this a bit
later.

Also, Michael Kelly of the NY Times wrote a piece for yesterday's
NY Times magazine which really highlighted the whole character
issue surrounding Bill Clinton, and Rush hopes to talk about this
a bit later on today's show as well.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that today is the sixth anniversary for the EIB
Network. He hadn't said much about this to his staff, but he was
convinced his staff was setting up a surprise celebration for
him. In fact, for all last week, he got calls from one EIB
executive after another who wanted to meet with him on Monday
afternoon, but who, after Rush agreed, shortly called back to
cancel the appointment.

Rush thus suspected that everyone in EIB was trying to make sure
Monday afternoon was free for a surprise party, but so far
nothing has happened, which irritates him. The EIB staff tell
Rush they didn't bother with any celebration because they know he
doesn't like surprises. When Rush tells them that's no excuse,
they start hurrying to order a cake and gifts, but Rush tells him
to stop; unlike Nelson Mandela, Rush is too proud to beg, so he
won't grovel for a party, no matter how well deserved it might
be.

Rush points out that there had best not be a surprise party this
afternoon because he's scheduled a dental appointment for right
after the show. The EIB staff ask if Rush has health care, and
Rush says he's covered by a novel approach: "I pay the bill." Of
course, dental services aren't covered under the Clinton health
care plan.

The EIB ask if Rush's dental appointment means he will be "out of
it" tomorrow, doped up because of all the novocaine. Rush says
he'll be his normal self tomorrow because he's a man and he can
take it.

This reminds him, though, of the crowd of 52,000 Christian men
who met in Boulder, CO; this conservative group, named Promise
Keepers, met to challenge aspects of feminism and liberal
society. One of the men pointed out that one reason society is in
such trouble today is because of the feminization of men, and
Rush agrees.

Tony Lo Bianco then comes in with a package, wrapped in
wonderfully cheap brown paper. Rush thanks Lo Bianco for his
gracious suck-up gift, and then points out to all the leftists in
his audience that it's true - EIB is still here after six years.

*BREAK*

Phone	Colleen from Belton, MO

Colleen was at the Scamtrack rally in Independence, MO Saturday,
and says that the rally was exactly what Rush said it was. She
had called the city hall early last week to make sure she could
attend without a ticket and was told it would be an open rally.
However, when she showed up Saturday, she found that tickets were
indeed necessary to get to the rally site.

In fact, there were dump trucks blocking access to the site, and
the security guys for the rally were throwing away any protest
signs which were not supportive of Clinton. Rush suspects that
what happened was that the organizers of the Health Security
Express bus tour originally thought they would get a lot of grass
roots support from the American people. When things started going
wrong for them in Portland, OR, they realized they were in big
trouble. In fact, the busses didn't even stop in Chattanooga
because they couldn't find an alternate site after the nuns who
owned the original site cancelled the booking.

Thus, those at city hall that Colleen talked to probably were
indeed told by the organizers no tickets would be required.
However, when the advance team arrived last weekend, they
undoubtedly changed the rules so as to present the best TV
pictures possible. This is normal and all Presidential
administrations have done what they could to make sure that
Presidential rallies and visits are presented in the best
possible light.

Colleen says that when she called today, the mayor's office told
her that the Clinton advance team was responsible for changing
the plans. Rush says if he were in the White House he'd do the
same thing, so as to control the event as best as can be done. No
President wants to show up to a public relations debacle, so the
administration will do what it must to make sure all such rallies
are a "success," at least for the TV cameras.

Colleen says that the protestors stayed around, and they were a
great bunch of people. In fact, the crowd of protestors was so
loud that the stage microphones had to be turned up to overcome
them. Rush says he didn't hear any of the protestors' remarks
because there weren't any crowd mikes, but this is to be
expected, too. However, it was weird because the President was
responding to the protestors, but you couldn't hear what they
were saying.

Colleen adds that when a cameraman tried to tape the protestors,
the Secret Service tried to stop him from doing so. Rush says
that even when the President and Hillary spoke, the crowd's
response seemed tepid. Colleen says that she was a block away,
but even so the crowd wasn't very loud at all.

Rush says this is the impression he got - the crowd wasn't loud
at all, and they didn't seem to be responding with genuine
emotion. In fact, there seemed to be some conductor who was
leading the crowd to chant things like "health care now!" Colleen
says the protestors were so loud that it was hard to hear even
the amplified speakers, and she clearly saw more than the few
hundred protestors that the newspapers are claiming.

Rush says that the official count was 5,000 supporters and 1,000
dissenters, but EIB affiliate KNBZ reported 3,000 supporters and
250 dissenters. Since none of the TV coverage showed the
protestors, Rush has no idea how many showed up. Colleen says
many of the protestors left when they realized they couldn't get
close, but they were the nicest people she's ever met.

Rush bets the protestors also had more heart-felt emotion than
the supporters who were undoubtedly supplied by the local unions.
He thanks Colleen for her on-site report of Saturday's rally.

*BREAK*

Phone	Hazel from Brooklyn, NY

Hazel is still crying about Rush's "change of marital status"
since it means there is only one single, straight, conservative
man in the Tri-State area: Bo Snerdley. Rush admits that Bo is
available, but he encourages Hazel to hang in there because she's
bound to find a genuine "Mr. Right" sooner or later; he warns
her, though, that she's going to have to lower her standards
because it's doubtful she'll be able to find someone that can
measure up to him.

Hazel sighs, but valiantly continues on to point out that the
"bogus" health care plan was supposed to be for the sake of the
middle class, but the "Gephardt plan" focuses on the poor and
unemployed. Rush says there is no Gephardt plan because there is
no plan; all that Gephardt has done is put out an outline of what
he hopes he can put in his plan.

Rush is amazed congressmen would still vote for a plan they
haven't even read. And in the Senate Finance Committee, some
members noted that much of the 961 pages of the written plan
doesn't conform to the plan that they voted for earlier. Thus,
these members want to send the "Mitchell plan" back to committee
to be re-evaluated.

Thus, there isn't any plan in either the House or the Senate,
although there are some basic outlines and sketches. The Gephardt
plan would impose an 80% employer mandate, with employees paying
20%, as specified in the original Clinton plan. However, the
Mitchell plan would split the mandate between employers and
employees equally. The Gephardt plan, though, would become
effective in 1999, while the Mitchell plan wouldn't go into
effect until later.

However, there is no support for the employer mandate in the
Senate; the mandate needs at least 25 more votes, and this
doesn't even consider other issues such as the funding of
abortion. And if the Senate isn't going to vote for a mandate,
the House certainly won't either.

Hazel says that Clinton's pollster Stanley Greenberg once said
that the only way this plan could be sold is if the middle class
were convinced it would benefit them. However, the Gephardt plan
is targeted for the poor and unemployed, while the Mitchell plan
would target pregnant women. Hazel thus thinks these plans are a
backdoor into a single-payer plan, given that every American will
eventually fall into one of the groups of being unemployed or
pregnant.

Rush doesn't know if he would think Congress is being that
conspiratorial, given that the Democrats in Congress are really
under the gun - they have to get a bill passed, and they really
don't care too much what will be in that bill, so long as it can
pass. The House needs to act quickly on this bill, so if they're
convinced the Senate won't support an employer mandate, then they
won't vote for one either.

Of course, the White House could start offering all sorts of
porkbarrel goodies to members of Congress to get their support,
so the Clinton plan can't be declared dead yet. Given the
politics involved, it is still quite possible that there will be
a health care bill in Congress before the November elections.

*BREAK*

Phone	Steve from Route 80, NJ

Steve says Rush has continually focused on the political aspects
of universal coverage, and how this would give government a lot
more power over people's lives. However, there is another side to
universal coverage, the economic side - everyone in America gets
health care, whether they are covered or not, which means the
cost of that "free" health care is distributed among everyone who
does pay. Thus, if everyone were forced to pay for their own
coverage, the cost for each person could go down; people would no
longer be paying for everyone else's care, too.

Rush says that he's heard this argument before. In fact, Hillary
Clinton loves to claim that making everyone insured will save
money. However, the Clintons would do this by insuring everyone,
without regard to what they do or pay; under the Clinton plan,
you're covered for life once you get that Health Security Card.

History has shown, though, that such plans don't lowest costs;
there is no evidence to show that when government claims to do
more for more people that the costs go down. This could happen in
the private sector, but when government gives people something,
they want more of it; thus, while this idea might sound good in
theory, there's no proof that it can or has ever worked.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush starts off the hour with the upbeat "Come On, Get Health
Care":

<<Chorus>>
"Hello, world, there's a plan that we're selling,
Come on, get health care!
A whole lot of taxes is what we'll be bringing
To give you health care!"

<<Verse>>
"We had a dream, we'd insure everybody,
Paint it as a crisis and then we'll come along.
But something always happens when you add up all the numbers,
You say it costs too much, but we'll tell you you're wrong."

<<Chorus>>
"Travelling along, there's a plan that we're selling,
Come on, get health care.
A whole lot of taxes is what we'll be bringing.
To make you healthy, come on get healthy, come on get health care!"

********

Rush thanks EIB's Indianapolis affiliate WIBC for sending in its
report on Sunday's Health Security Express rally, which had 300
protestors and only 100 pro-Clinton supporters. EPA Chairwoman
Carol Browner was at this rally, and she said the following:

"My job in the Clinton administration is to run the Environmental
Protection Agency. What I am responsible for is protecting the
health of the people of this country and the health of the
resources we all share: the air, the land, and the water. But I
can't do my job if the people of this country don't have health
care."

Rush finds it hard to believe Browner can't keep the air, water,
and environment clean unless Americans have health care, and he
suspects the Clinton administration is grasping at straws right
now. Perhaps one of the reasons for this are the protestors who
are showing up at these rallies and chanting things like "The
Deal is Raw, Take it Back to Arkansas!"

Rush's heart is warmed by this cheer, but showing his sensitivity
he plays a song that must echo a lot of what President Clinton is
feeling right now:

<<Verse, sung by Bill>>
"Well, I really wonder how you know
Because I thought I was fooling you.
I worked so hard on my health care plan,
But you figured out it was a scam."

"It took me by surprise, I must say,
When I saw the front page today,
Oh, I read it in the headlines,
My health care plan is in a real bind,
Well, I read it in the headlines,
Oh, that I'm just about to lose my behind, and your money, yeah!"

<<Chorus, sounding like it includes George Stephanopoulos, James
Carville, and Robert B. Reich>> Read it in the headlines, I'm
about to lose my behind, baby!

<<Verse>>
"I know that a man ain't supposed to lie,
But for your own good, I felt it justified.
Now I can't believe how much you know.
Well, I blame that guy on the radio."

"Well, you could have told me yourself
That I can't take away your wealth.
Instead, I read it in the headlines,
My health care is in a real bind.
Well, I read it in the headlines,
Oh, that I'm just about to lose my behind, and your money, yeah!"

<<Chorus, repeats and fades in background as Clinton takes the
verse out>> Read it in the headlines, I'm about to lose my
behind, baby!

<<Verse>>
"You think it's funny, I know,
I'm falling in the polls, read it in the headlines,
Oh, read it in the headlines . . ."

********

Rush notes that one of the headlines which must be bothering the
President is the one in Friday's Seattle Post Intelligencer which
read "Doctor Choice Curbed." The story was about Washington
state's new health care plan that is to implement universal
coverage. The plan, only one year old, has already forced the
Washington state health commission to curb people's choice of
doctors.

Today's Wall Street Journal also notes that this law's main
features of employer mandates and uniform managed care plans
resemble the plans which Congress is currently considering, which
means that what happens in Washington state could be a preview of
what will happen nationwide. It's thus important that last week
the Washington health commission decided to limit the number of
doctors that patients could choose from, with the commissioner
saying this was a "necessary trade-off to ensure that the costs
of universal coverage are contained."

The Clinton administration, though, claims that universal
coverage will save money, but the Washington state plan shows
this is not true. It's a sobering point to realize that the first
decision Washington state's unelected commission made was to
limit patients' choice of doctors.

Hillary Clinton is a big fan of this plan, and when asked last
week by the Seattle Times if she thought the state's plan
required major changes, she replied, "Absolutely not, the
features of the Washington plan will still be the features of any
plan that comes out of Congress because they are the only
features that will really work. We learned a lot from what
Washington did."

Rush notes that this is real life, not some academician's theory,
and in real life universal coverage means limiting patients'
choice. The Wall Street Journal also points out that Washington's
state legislators are so unhappy with the plan they passed last
year that they have already proposed 200 amendments to it. The
Journal wonders, given this example, what the country could
expect from any plan being "slapdashed" together in a few days by
George Mitchell and Tom Foley.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that he has long said that to fix health care, you
have to put competition back in on the cost side, keeping the
private sector involved as much as possible. There is time to do
such things because the country is not in a "health care crisis."

Brett Schundler, mayor of Jersey City, NJ has helped prove this
point by coming up with a plan to provide the city's 2500
municipal employees with medical savings accounts which will give
them with family coverage for health care, without copayments or
higher premiums.

Currently, the city has to pay about $6800 annually to cover each
employee, despite the fact that this state plan has a $200
deductible and a 20% copayment. Should a husband and wife both
work for the city, the city still has to pay for each of them
separately, effectively doubling the cost of insuring their
family, and each person will still have to meet the same
deductibles and copayments.

However, the new plan, which uses medical savings accounts, will
cost only $4700 per employee for a catastrophic health coverage
plan that has a $2,000 deductible. The city will then place an
additional $2,000 in a medical savings account in the employee's
name. Thus, the city will be spending about the same amount per
employee, but the savings account can be used to cover the
employee's deductible payments.

Employees will therefore no longer have any out-of-pocket
expenses for any covered procedures, and if the employees' total
health care costs for the year fall below $2,000, what's left
will be given to the employee as income. The employees will
therefore in most cases do better than the previous plan, and in
no cases will they do worse.

The city will benefit by having some immediate cost savings and
prospects for significant cost reductions in the future.
Employees will be happier and healthier, and might get a sizeable
bit of "extra pay" at the end of the year; plus they won't have
to pay copayment costs for covered procedures, which means people
might be more likely to go to the doctor for important health
care needs and preventative care, given that they will no longer
have to pay 20% of their bills.

Rush praises Jersey City for taking an important step towards
fixing their health care problems. This can't be done overnight,
but the steps have to be taken towards getting the people to pay
the bills for their own health care, as this is the only way to
get market competition back into the health care field, thereby
lowering costs.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that Brett Schundler of Jersey City, NJ has also made
major strides in improving his city's education, giving parents
choice in the education of their children. He's actually
governing and getting things done. He negotiated this new
insurance package for his city's employees, and what he's done is
exactly what's needed over the long haul to fix the health care
system in America.

What's wrong is not that government is not doing enough, but
rather that medical services are no longer based on what people
can afford to pay, thanks to the lack of competition. Every
business, from Major League Baseball to air conditioners has to
be based on what people can pay, but this is not happening now in
health care.

Nevertheless, people are really paying the whole bill for health
care, but they just don't realize this because they aren't paying
the check. The use of medical savings accounts, though, will help
correct this and get cost competition back into the picture for
non-catastrophic health care. But health care is not in a crisis
situation, and those who oppose the Clinton plan are not
negativists, but rather those who want to see individuals put
back in control of their own lives, as opposed to turning them
into government serfs.

Phone	Nick from Atlanta, GA

Nick says that things aren't as screwed up as the Clintons are
claiming, and he wonders what will happen to those businesses
that are providing health care now to their employees. Rush says
nobody knows because there's nothing known about the bills which
are still being written.

However, it's notable that Rep. Elizabeth Slaughter (D-NY) got an
exemption from Hillary Clinton for her district of Rochester
because its large companies have great health care plans.
Slaughter therefore agreed to vote for whatever bill the Clintons
eventually get in exchange for her district not having to abide
by it.

Also, Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO) while recently on a CNN call-in
show told a union worker who liked his union's health care plan
that he would "probably" keep his coverage under the Clinton
plan. Gephardt told the man "probably nothing will happen to your
health care - this plan will apply for people that are not now
covered. Your plan will most likely stay in place. There's
nothing in our plan that says employers and employees can't agree
to anything they want. You've already agreed with your employer,
it'll just keep on going forward."

The Clintons, though, have never said this; their plan would
replace what people have now. Hillary has insisted her plan would
"build on what now works," but if this is true, then why did Rep.
Slaughter need an exemption for the plans that are indeed working
in her district?

Nick also notes he's going to the Royal Cigar Store for some Nat
Sherman stogies, and Rush says this is a great New York outfit.
Nick asks if Rush likes the Hoya de Monterey Excalibur cigars,
and Rush replies that these are among his favored brands. "It's a
good cigar!" he exclaims.

Phone	Walter from Vancouver, WA

Walter is a partner in a small construction business, so he's
very interested in the health care debate. Walter is purchasing
health care for his employees, and his current plan costs about
$100 a month per single employee and about $300 per family; this
coverage has a $500 basic deductible, plus a 50% copayment up to
$2500, so the maximum an employee will pay a year is $1750, in
addition to their 20% share of the premiums.

Rush says that this would come out to about $2950 to $5350 a year
per employee, which is within the range of $3200 to $3400 being
bandied about right now for the employer mandate. However, this
plan does sound a bit expensive to Rush, and he asks what kind of
coverage is provided. Walter says the coverage is typical and
include things like pregnancy, but it is a preferred provider
plan with additional copayments for standard things such as
doctor's visit.

Walter says he only has three employees so he had problems
finding a company to provide coverage for his group. Private
companies can't turn down people for pre-existing conditions,
though, so he eventually found someone to provide it. However,
while the Washington "universal coverage" plan will curb doctors,
he thinks all plans offer some sort of limited choice. For
example, under the plan Walter has, he and his employees can
choose only from a selected group of physicians, but this doesn't
bother Walter.

Rush says most people would prefer to stay with the same doctor,
but Walter says he's a basically healthy program so he rarely
sees one anyway. He thinks, though, that there's too much being
said about the employer mandate and limited choice, given that in
his experience these things aren't that bad.

Rush says that experience in places such as Washington state as
well as overseas prove these limitations are important. However,
in addition to all this, entrepreneurs and small businesses don't
want the federal government telling them what to do, how much to
pay their employees, what kind of health care coverage they have
to provide, or what doctors they can choose. These people don't
trust government to make these decisions for them.

Today's NY Post has a column by John Krudell who explains why
Clinton's popularity is plummeting even though the economy is
robust and doing well. This is not surprising, though, because
Clinton is trying to usurp more of Americans' freedoms each and
every day, and small businessmen and entrepreneurs know this more
clearly than anyone else.

As Michael Kelly pointed out in the NY Times magazine yesterday,
Clinton has no center; Clinton is not so much dishonest as
"ahonest" - Clinton has no moral center, nothing that could be
called a set of core beliefs or principles. Rush has long been
asking where Clinton's "soul," given that he seems to actually
believe different things on different days, which is why the
people distrust him so much and why his approval rating is
dropping.

*BREAK*

The Washington Post's Mary McGrory actually thinks the reason
Clinton's standing in the polls is dropping is because of his
legal defense fund. Rush is amazed that those in the Washington
Beltway are so isolated that they would think this; he suggests
it might be a good idea if these elitists would bother to go out
into the rest of the country and figure out what is really
motivating people. The American people don't trust Clinton, and
they don't like what they see him doing or saying; this is why
Clinton's approval rating is dropping.

The people aren't idiots - they know Clinton wrote how he loathed
the military 25 years ago, so what are they going to think when
they see him claim at Normandy that he and his generation loved
the military so much? Why people distrust Clinton is not that
hard to see, but those in the Beltway seem to be so insulated as
to be totally ignorant of this reality.

*BREAK*

Phone	Ron from Houston, TX

Ron asks Rush about what he thinks of Janet Reno assigning
federal marshals to protect abortion clinics. Rush says that this
is not a complicated issue - there are extremists on the fringe
of the pro-life movement, just as there are extremists elsewhere,
but anyone who thinks that the way to fight abortion is by
killing abortionists is as wrong as anyone can be. What these
extremists are doing will set back their cause far worse than
anything any Supreme Court Justice or liberal could possibly do.

Rush doesn't personally know anyone in the pro-life movement who
has nothing but anger and contempt for those who would kill
abortion doctors. As to the federal marshals, Rush hasn't heard
much about the idea, so he can't comment on it; however, adding
more security to these clinics would seem to be only basic common
sense, as far as he's concerned.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

The Whitewater "Whitewash" hearings are expected to pick up this
week, with Roger Altman testifying tomorrow. It's looking bad for
Altman, given that Secretary Lloyd Bentsen is mad at him, so it's
pretty sure he's going to be heading back to Wall Street soon.

Rush notes, though, that the Whitewater hearings are the single
biggest abuse of power that he's ever seen in his lifetime on the
part of a single political party. The Democrats clearly don't
want to investigate Democrats, and while Republicans don't want
to investigate Republicans, at least they did it 25 times during
the Reagan and Bush administrations.

Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez is clearly showing his partisan bias in
the way he is conducting the hearings, but not even his
partisanship could accept the rantings of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-
CA) last Thursday and Friday. Waters was irate as she could be on
Thursday because Rep. Pete King (R-NY) was nailing Hillary
Clinton's chief of staff Margaret Williams.

Rush has a transcript of King's questioning of Williams, which
included asking her if she had ever know Roger Altman to
exaggerate or hallucinate, and whether there were any personal
differences or a feud between her and Altman. Williams answered
no to all such questions, and King then asked about the sealed
envelope that Altman gave Williams:

<<Rep. Peter King>> Now also on the diary where Mr. Cutler
advised you of it, Mr. Altman came by and gave you an envelope, a
sealed envelope. At that time you had already testified before a
grand jury and you retained counsel. You knew the special
prosecutor or independent counsel was continuing his
investigation, and you knew that there were Senate and House
hearings. Did you ever consider giving that envelope to Mr.
Cutler, the White House Counsel?

<<Margaret Williams>> No, I did not.

<<King>> Did you ever consider giving it to your counsel?

<<Williams>> No, I did not.

<<King>> Did you ever consider turning it over to the appropriate
House or Senate committees investigating this matter?

<<Williams>> No, I did not.

<<King>> Did you have any idea what was in that envelope, other
than the fact that Mr. Altman gave it to you?

<<Williams>> I assumed, as I said before, it was this diary.

<<King>> Didn't you have any curiosity to open it up and see
what's in there?

<<Williams>> Sir, my curiosity may not be on par with yours. I
did not have any curiosity.

<<King>> That's just a very important point you just made. I
think we're applying a reasonable person's standard here. I think
the reasonable person, if they're involved in a matter such as
this, that they would have a natural curiosity to see what's in
that envelope, or at least turn it over to their attorney to
protect themselves. Now listen, I've been in politics, I've been
a staff person, I've been in elected office, and I come, as Mr.
Ickes knows, from a part of the country where these
investigations are the rule rather than the exception. I sat
where you're sitting, so I have some idea what this is all about.
But I have a hard time accepting your version of the events. We
have to believe that you didn't get the October 20th memo; we
have to believe that Mr. Altman, for some reason, intentionally
put down some of the most vicious things about you. For him to
say, for instance that you infer the White House is trying to
narrow the scope of the independent counsel, for him to say that
you came to him and he's the head of an independent organization
which theoretically could be investigating the First Family, for
you to tell him that the First Lady was paralyzed, and for then
for you also to tell him that you've never discussed Whitewater
with the First Lady . . . to me, this flies in the sense of
common sense and logic. It doesn't add up. When you said maybe
I'm just more curious than you are, I'd think most of the people
in this country would be more curious than you and that's why I
find it hard to accept your testimony.

<<Williams>> Mr. King, my honesty in this matter does not depend
on whether or not you believe me.

<<King>> It depends on whether or not the American people do, and
I think the average person would . . . (to Chairman Gonzalez) Mr.
Chairman, I see the orange light here. As far as I know . . .

<<Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez (D-TX)>> Well, the gentleman is
going beyond the outer limits of propriety in his badgering the
witness. He's asked the question, she answered it. Your judgment . . .

<<King>> I don't think I'm badgering the witness. In fact, I said
I can identify with the witness because I've had the same feeling
towards people questioning me.

<<Gonzalez>> If the gentleman would . . .

<<Rep. Maxine Waters, interrupting>> Mr. Chairman, please, the
gentleman is out of order.

<<King>> I don't think Miss Waters has anything to do with this
line of questioning, Mr. Chairman.

<<Waters>> I most certainly do, I have to do, I have to . . .

<<King>> Miss Waters apparently looks upon herself as the
defender of the White House. I have the right to ask questions.
You had your chance, why don't you just sit there?

<<Waters>> You are out of order!

<<King>> You're always out of order!

<<Waters>> You're out of order! Shut up!

And then the exchange which Rush played on Friday's show
occurred. After this exchange on Thursday, though, the fireworks
continued the next morning in the full House:

<<Waters>> A member of this House, Peter King, had to be gavelled
out of order at the Whitewater hearings of the Banking Committee.
He had to be gavelled out of order because he badgered a woman
who was a witness from the White House, Maggie Williams. I'm
pleased I was able to come to her defense! Madame Chairman, the
day is over when men can badger and intimidate women. . .

<<King>> Madame Speaker, I demand the gentlewoman's words be
taken down.

<<Waters>> . . . marginalize them, and keep them from speaking! I
am pleased I was able to come to the defense.

<<King>> Madame Speaker, I demand the gentlewoman's words be
taken down.

<<Waters>> We are now in this House, we are members of this House . . .

<<Chairwoman Carrie Meek (D-FL)>> Will the gentlewoman stand . . . 
will the gentlewoman stand!

<<Waters>> We will not allow men to intimidate us and to keep us
from our. . .

<<Meek>> The gentlewoman must suspend!

<<King>> Madame Speaker, I demand the gentlewoman be called to
order!

<<Meek>> The gentlewoman must suspend!

<<Waters>> Gentlewoman, thank you again. You see a man who tried
to shut up a woman . . .

<<Meek, pounding gavel>> The gentlewoman must suspend!

<<King>> Madame Speaker, the gentlewoman from California is out
of order!

<<Meek>> You must suspend, gentlewoman!

<<Waters>> Madame Chairlady, did you ever see men . . .

<<Meek>> The gentlewoman from California must . . .

<<King>> Madame Speaker, I demand the Sergeant-at-Arms bring the
gentlewoman to her feet!

<<Meek>> You must suspend!

<<Waters>> Did you ever see men do this to other men!?

<<Meek>> You must suspend!

<<King>> Madame Speaker, I demand the gentlewoman comply with the
rules of this House!

<<Meek>> The gentlewoman must suspend!

<<Waters>> It is only when a woman attempts to speak . . .

<<Meek, banging gavel repeatedly>> The gentlewoman from
California must suspend!

<<Waters>> It is only when a woman wants to exercise her rights
in this House . . .

<<Meek, banging gavel repeatedly>> You must suspend!

<<King>> Madame Speaker, I demand the Sergeant-at-Arms take the
gentlewoman to her feet!

<<Meek>> Suspend, gentlewoman from California! You must suspend!

<<Waters>> This is a fine example of what they try to do to us . . . 

<<Meek>> You must suspend, you must suspend! Please!

<<King>> Madame Speaker, I move that this House now adjourn!

<<Waters>> I am pleased that I was able to come to Maggie
Williams' defense.

<<King>> Madame Speaker, Madame Speaker, I move this House now
adjourn.

<<Waters>> The women of this nation will not continue to have
this kind of treatment.

<<Meek>> Sergeant-at-Arms, Sergeant-at-Arms!

<<King>> Madame Speaker, put the question!

<<Waters>> That's a fine example! Thank you, Madame Chairwoman!

<<Meek>> Would you please . . . Will the Sergeant-at-Arms . . .

<<Rep. Bob Walker (R-PA)>> Have the Sergeant-at-Arms remove her!
She's out of order!

<<unknown man>> What excuse would there be for that now, Madame
Speaker?

<<Walker>> She's gavelled down!

<<Meek>> The gentlewoman was out of order. The chair was about to
direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove, to present the mace.

<<Walker, to Sergeant-at-Arms>> Do it now!

<<Meek>> The gentlewoman has now left . . . is she there?

Rush notes this spectacle occurred in the U.S. House of
Representatives, and he has to wonder what would have happened
had someone such as Ed Meese been testifying to the House. King
was not badgering the witness, but trying to find out the truth.
Waters thus had to stop his questioning because he was getting
too close to the truth.

William Safire's column today attacks the "dismaying spectacle"
of Democrats trying to protect the White House, noting "before
our eyes is a pattern of 20 improper contacts between supposed
law enforcement officials at Treasury and Presidential advisers
eager to avoid a serious investigation of their boss. If that is
not an egregious breach of ethics, then nothing is unethical."

Safire notes that if Altman did not deceive Congress with his
initial testimony claiming that there was only one such contact,
then nothing could possibly declared unethical or misleading.
Safire also notes how it was George Stephanopoulos who tried to
find a way to get rid of former U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens;
Stephanopoulos claimed he was only "blowing off steam," but
Joshua Steiner's diary quotes him as saying "we've got to find a
way to get rid of him."

This is not "merely expressing concern," Safire notes, and he
points out that had a Republican aide said this, it would have
been considered an attempt to impede an investigation, following
by a new investigation, possible indictment, conviction, and a
jail term, "followed by a lucrative CD-ROM memoir, radio talk
show, and Senatorial nomination."

Rush thinks Safire is right in all this, but in his closing
paragraph, Safire targets Robert Fiske as someone who has chosen
to disbelieve and ignore any possible evidence that might look
bad on the President; "Fiske cheerily sees no evil," Safire
notes, pointing out that he was more than eager to conclude the
Vincent Foster death was a suicide at the Park, although no skull
or bullet fragments were found. The witness who was the first to
see the body, claims he was badgered by FBI officials 25 times
until he finally conceded that perhaps he was wrong with his
initial statement that he did see the body with both its palms
turned up, without a gun being present.

"What's with this non-independent counsel that helps Democrats
avoid oversight?" Safire asks. "Find a way to get rid of him."
Rush notes that Safire is anything but a member of the "far
religious right," and it's probable that this week's hearings
will heat up all the more.

The American people are not fools - they look at things like the
behavior of Maxine Waters and Henry B. Gonzalez and realize these
are people acting as if they are trying to cover something up.
And the Clinton administration is full of people who act as if
they have something to hide. It is things such as these that lead
the American people to mistrust Bill Clinton and his
administration.

*BREAK*

Phone	Mary from Newburg, IN

Mary was in Evansville yesterday to meet the Health Security
Express bus tour, and one of the women giving a speech said she
couldn't understand why so many Midwesterners listened to Rush
and didn't believe in Will Rogers' dictum that people should help
their fellow man. Mary couldn't believe that this woman was
basically claiming that anyone who didn't support the Clinton
plan had to be against helping their fellow man. Mary points out
that when the hurricanes hit Florida, earthquakes hit California,
or floods hit their neighbors in the Midwest, she and those like
her did all they could to help.

Rush says that this shows how those supporting the Clinton health
care plan define compassion in terms of government giving to one
group of people by taking from another. This particular woman has
no idea what Rush and his listeners do to help others, nor did
she realize that more often than not, the best form of help is
self-help.

Mary also says that a man who was speaking was continually booed,
and at one point he said that there was no problem with the
Clinton plan paying for abortion because "we're all good
Christians who are opposed to abortion so we'll never have
abortions." The man asked the crowd how they could object to
that, and several people shouted back that they didn't like
having to pay for abortions. The man replied that the "way
around" this was just to find a way to avoid paying taxes.

Rush doubts that this guy meant this literally, but it sure
sounds that the busses were full of big government statists who
think compassion only means government-help; any other kind of
assistance, charity, or help doesn't seem to count with these
people. To them, the only way to be truly compassionate is if
they think the only benefactor in the U.S. is the federal
government.

Mary says she's not opposed to health care reform, but just the
way the administration is going about it. Rush says that this is
typical of how the administration has been selling its plan:
anyone opposed to it "has to be" against health care. Rush
doesn't know anyone who is opposed to fixing health care, but
there are those who disagree about how this should be done.

Phone	Bob from Gross Point, MI

Bob says that the recent polls show that Clinton's poll numbers
are still low, but in a straw poll he still beats Bob Dole and
Colin Powell. Rush says this poll is premature and really doesn't
mean anything except perhaps that Clinton is in worse shape than
he thinks. After all, Powell got 5% of the vote in the straw
poll, which is amazing since Powell isn't even running for
anything yet, and nobody really knows what Dole as a Presidential
candidate would stand for.

Rush tells Bob to stay tuned because he'll talk a bit more about
this after the break.

*BREAK*

The Louis Harris poll released today show only 40% of the
American people rate Clinton's job performance as being good or
excellent, which is 5% lower than what Rush predicted it would be
next January. However, when these same people are asked to vote
between Clinton, Dole, and Powell, it's Clinton who wins.

This is not a mystery because at this stage of things, neither
Dole nor Powell are candidates, and nobody knows what they
officially stand for. What this means is that Republicans will
soon have to define themselves because they can't win anything by
trying to get the majority to vote against the other guy. Even if
they could do this, they would not end up with any mandate. The
American people want to vote for somebody who stands for
something; they want to see their President have a clear list of
policies to implement.

However, the elections are still two years away, so people
shouldn't get depressed about these polls, which if anything show
how the Democrats are desperately trying to hold on to what
they've got in the November congressional elections.

Phone	Tracy from Shawnee, KS

Tracy says she spent her first wedding anniversary protesting the
Clinton health care plan in Independence, MO. She saw two things
in particular that annoyed her, such as how the Secret Service
dispersed the protestors so they wouldn't look like that big a
group. Also, the Secret Service was going around asking people
what group they were in; however, Tracy wasn't part of a group,
just with her husband and his father.

Rush notes that the Democrats assume everyone is part of some
organized group, but Tracy says most of the people there were
families. Tracy's mother was home watching the event on the news,
and she heard Algore complain that the protestors were
insensitive for booing a 16-year-old cancer patient. However, the
protestors were so far away, they didn't even know who was on
stage, much less that it was a young cancer patient. In fact, the
people coming off the busses were led in through the back, so the
crowd of protestors never got to see them.

Rush says that he didn't see any black people coming off those
busses, which is a complaint he often gets about his TV audience.
Critics often claim it means something that Rush's TV show
doesn't have "a lot" of blacks, but Rush isn't seeing a "lot of"
blacks among these Reform Riders either. Tracy says there weren't
many, and most of the Reform Riders there Saturday were disabled
and elderly; however, the busses weren't full at all.

Rush asks if Tracy saw any "The Bus Stops Here" signs, and Tracy
says she saw several, and in fact had one herself. Rush notes
this proves his earlier point - that leftist protestors get lots
of press, but conservative protestors are ignored.

Tracy agrees - the local TV shows ignored the protestors,
claiming that there were thousands of supporters and only a few
protestors. However, Clinton didn't even have a block's worth of
people; Tracy went to Dan's Bake Sale and was "smushed" by the
crowd, so she knows what a massive crowd is like. The protestors
were at least equal to the number of supporters, if not a lot
more.

Rush says NY Newsday in its coverage of this event did interview
some protestors, even made mention of the "The Bus Stops Here"
signs. He asks what Tracy did to celebrate her anniversary, and
she says she and her husband went to a Thai place. Rush suggests
that while Tracy is in the area, they go to Stroud's in Kansas
City, since it's barely an hour away from Shawnee.

Tracy says she'll do that and Rush thanks her for calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	Larry from Richmond, VA

Larry says the Health Security Express just pulled into Richmond,
and Larry showed up with his daughter to meet it. There were more
dissenters than supporters; in fact, there were more people on
the busses than showed up to support it.

Larry adds that the busses showed up at a small church, and the
pastor told the protestors they couldn't come into the church.
Thus, the protestors stayed about 100 feet from the church
protesting and chanting. Larry couldn't stick around for a while,
but when he left there were 120 protestors, which was good given
that most conservatives are normally at work in the morning.

The news reports, though, claimed that the protestors were a
"bunch of tobacco workers complaining about taxes." However,
everyone there was there for the express purpose of opposing the
Clinton plan. Larry was impressed by how those in the crowd were
talking about all the specifics of the Clinton plan. There were
also signs like "The Bus Stops Here." Rush is glad to hear this,
and hopes that maybe there will be "Scamtrack" signs at the next
stops.

Rush thanks Larry for calling and asks how many listeners think
the current health care system is a disaster. Meanwhile, Senator
George Mitchell recently stated that anyone who opposed
Democrats' health care bill was opposed to health care reform.

Yet those opposed to Mitchell's plan are not opposed to reform.
Plus, there is no bill, so Rush would ask Mitchell where his bill
is. This raises the question of whether those voting for this
bill will even have read it beforehand. Rush notes that those
opposed to what Clinton wants are motivated by a desire for true
reform, while those in Congress are motivated by a desire to get
some kind of bill passed for purely political purposes.

Phone	Al from Fountain Valley, CA

Al read an article in yesterday's Orange County Register about
the Vincent Foster death, and it reported that the FBI found
semen and hair from a blonde woman on Foster's shorts. Rush
suspects that some "stealth, unknown Christian right editor" has
taken over the County Register, and he notes that when some
Senators dared to bring this stuff up last week, they were shamed
for doing so.

Al wonders why nobody else is reporting this, and why the
hearings in Congress aren't investigating this, especially since
this would explain where Foster was during 1 o'clock when he was
last seen and 5 o'clock when he was found. Rush notes that one
witness has already said he was badgered 25 times into saying
that his prior testimony might have been mistaken. The purpose of
the Whitewater hearings has nothing to do with getting to the
truth, but rather with challenging the motives of Republicans and
continuing the cover-up.

Rush notes that the Democrats in the House and Senate Banking
committees are heavily relying on Robert Fiske to be their
savior; however, what if Fiske finds something that can't be
swept under the rug? How will these members of Congress, who have
praised Fiske for doing a great job with these investigations,
view him then? And Rush knows this day will come because there is
stuff to be found in the Arkansas portion of the investigation.

*BREAK*

Items

o	An independent investigator for the Treasury Department
has insisted that no ethical violations occurred in the
Whitewater-related talks between Treasury and White House
officials, but he did say these talks were "troubling." Rush,
though, wonders why these talks would be troubling if there was
nothing wrong with them?

o	Rush notes that Benjamin Chavis is accused of using NAACP
funds to pay off a woman who accused him of sexual harassment. He
hopes to talk about this during tomorrow's show.

o	The Rush Limbaugh TV show is in reruns for the next four
weeks, which is a sad, sad thing, but life marches on.

